The 70s and diet - what were we eating?

[Alicay]

Watched a programme about The Cure last night. There was footage of the group from '81 (I think) and they were all like pipe cleaners - that really slight, skinny look. Not an inch on them. Growing up I can remember the majority (of young people at least) having that kind of physique. Also, recently saw Gregory's Girl and was struck by the school scenes - kids all like whippets. Now im fat and in my fifties I'm trying to remember what I/people ate. think for me it was cornflakes with sugar for breakfast, orange juice then modest packed lunch (I never got crisps, but some kids got a packet of walkers) or a disgusting school dinner of meat pie and veg that I barely touched) dinner was always vegetable soup then say pasta (fancy, but Italian roots) then stewed fruit. I'd be raging hungry on that diet now. Thinking about it maybe food was just less appealing/quantities smaller? Is it all just down to the extra snacks we have now?
Any 70's/earlier people remember better than me?

Fish
Rice
Citrus fruit
and repeat

Monotonous at the time but looking back it's significantly healthier than my diet today.

My dad used to bring us a cake home after work every Friday that was a weekly treat and a treat was a meal at the little chef on the way to see grandparents and getting the little fizzy lollipop they gave you free after !
We had the box of broken biscuits sometimes and like others have said , had to ask to have one.
I remember simple dinners , tomatoe soup and toast , scrambled egg , sausage and egg but we never had lots of crisps or sweets and only fizzy occasionally

We ate a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables and grew veg in the garden and greenhouse. Meals were quite plain (meat and potato pie, shepherds pie, cottage pie, egg and chips) and there was always a roast dinner and pudding on Sunday (typically a Heinz sponge pudding between four or five of us, but my mum would sometimes make a steamed sponge pudding). I have always been vegetarian so my meals were generally just vegetables! Saturday was always either a cooked breakfast fry up, or proper chips. Occasionally we would get 'specials' which were sliced potatoes dipped in batter and fried...delicious!
As others have said, my mum shopped most days and it was a case of only having the food that was in the house that day.

Move over, spaghetti hoops, here come the Noodle Doodles!

Rice Krispies or Cornflakes for breakfast with a teaspoon of sugar! We usually took a homemade sandwich to school with a bag of crisps and a two finger kit kat. Dinner was meat and two veg most days, maybe fish once a week. Salad was bland - a slice of ham and lettuce, tomatoes and beetroot in a jar. Snacks were bread or toast with butter/jam. Fruit was apples, oranges or bananas and not that often. We had puddings frequently - rice pudding or something with custard - ice cream on a Sunday. Very few biscuits, sweets, cakes or other types of snacks in between meals. I think the key to keeping a healthy weight was walking everywhere or using public transport - there was no family car. I think as a society we are so less active nowadays and our portions are a lot bigger than the 70's and I think I definitely snack more on unhealthy foods.

Noodle doodle came to town with lots of straight spaghetti…

twisted it around and round and round and this is what you gett-i…

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nearly as good as Um Bongo Um Bongo they drink it in the Congo…

Food was unhealthy, but less snacking and the main thing is more walking. Even in the 90's nearly everyone walked to the bus stop if too far for walk once ton started secondary. Over 90% get dropped off at my DC's. Cars idle along for ages in standstill traffic to drop their teenagers off by the entrance. This is the biggest health issue imo, having your child or teen walk to school is practically considered neglect.

lunch at senior school for me was a roll with salami, or cheese and as others a penguin bar
nothing else
i came home from school as a teen and raided the kitchen, egg or jam or cheese on toast